PowerEdge R470

PowerEdge R470
Network Server
IBM

06 Apr 2025
153874

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 6 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.2.6 (02/26/2025)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® 6787P Processor
RAM:	1536 GB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba AL15SEB SERIES, 2.4 TB, SAS (AL15SEB24EQY) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.1.0-150500.110.2

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.

Referenced Bulletins
139861

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 36038
	Checksum: 0b61a60a0e0ad17758de6d7c15490de4

2 Broadcom® NetXtreme E-Series BCM57412 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 251782
	Checksum: c9b798a2e97bdea00a55d48040e1379a

Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpi3mr.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 153235
	Checksum: 9105a03642834c8a0b0c57a2f5b15aa0
	Driver Version: 8.5.1.0.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

559930

PowerEdge R470 - Yes Bulletin 153874 | SUSE